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A Global Challenge

The fight for women's rights

  • 19th Century Seneca Falls Convention
    • July 19-20, 1848
    • Seneca Falls, New York
    • meeting organized by Quaker women group
    • influenced women's rights
      • lecture on law
      • women in society
    • Presented the Declaration of Sentiments
      • 100 of 300 attendants signed in the convention
  • 1975 Mexico City Conference
    • First World conference on the Status of Women
    • Called for by the United Nations General Assembly
    • Objectives:
      • full gender equality (no gender discrimination)
      • full participation of women in developement
      • Increase contributions of women in the strengthening of world peace
  • 1995 Beijing Conference
    • September 4-15, 1995
    • more thean 5,000 representitives from 2,100 organizations and 189 governments attended
    • Principal themes:
      • advancement and empowerment of women
      • poverty
      • women and desicion making
      • violence against women
    • The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was a resulting document
  • (CEDAW) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
    • adopted in 1979 by UN
    • "international bill of rights for women"
    • 30 articles and preamble
    • only treaty that affirms reproductive rights of women

Important women in history:
* Dr. Mae Jemison ---first African American woman in space
* Amelia Earhart--- first woman to receive Distinguished Flying Cross, first pilot to fly alone across Atlantic
* Rosa Parks--- "first lady of civil rights" "mother of the freedom movement" ;sparked Montgomery Bus Boycott
* Sally Ride--- first American woman in space
* Susan B. Anthony--- fought strongly against slavery and for women
* Marie Curie--- first woman to win the Nobel Prize
* Elizabeth I--- Queen of England
*Joan of Arc--- National France hero; led resistance to english invasion of France
*Margaret Abbot--- Born in India, first American woman Olympian winner